 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - 1994 - 354 Seiten
...the first eternal thinking Being should, if he pleased, give to certain Systems of created sensless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought" (E IV.iii.6: 541). This may seem quite an innocent remark about divine omnipotence and our ignorance,... | |
 | Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen - 1996 - 268 Seiten
...the first eternal thinking Being should, if he pleased, give to certain Systems of created sensless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought" (p. 541). See An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter Nidditch (1975; Oxford: Clarendon,... | |
 | Peter A. Morton - 1996 - 522 Seiten
...and Bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking Being should, if he pleased, give to certain Systems of...degrees of sense, perception, and thought: Though, as I think, I have proved, Lib. 4. c. \0th. it is no less than a contradiction to suppose matter (which... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 Seiten
...to bare matter: 'For I see no contradiction in it', he wrote, 'that the first eternal thinking Being should, if he pleased, give to certain Systems of...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought' (Essay IV.iii.6). God's omnipotence is constrained only by what is logically impossible. He cannot... | |
 | Michael Ayers - 1999 - 68 Seiten
...pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For l see no contradiction in it, that the first etemal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought ... What certainty of knowledge can anyone have that some perceptions, such as vg pleasure and pain,... | |
 | Etienne Gilson - 1999 - 290 Seiten
...souls, why should not thought belong to bodies? There is no contradiction in supposing that God could, if he pleased, "give to certain systems of created...senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degree of sense, perception, and thought".28 In other words, let us say we have no positive reasons... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 424 Seiten
...man can know. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first Eternal thinking Being, or Omnipotent Spirit, should, if he pleased, give to certain systems...degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think I have proved, Bk. iv. ch. 10, SS 14, &c., it is no less than a contradiction to suppose... | |
 | David Skrbina - 2005 - 334 Seiten
...substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power. . . . For I see no contradiction in [that God] should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter . . . some degrees of sense, perception, and thought. . . . [No one can] have the confidence to conclude... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 Seiten
...the creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being or omnipotent spirit should, if he pleased, give to certain systems...degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, Bk. IV. c. xth it is no less than a contradiction to suppose matter (which... | |
 | Lex Newman - 2007 - 18 Seiten
...the first eternal thinking Being should, if he pleased, give to certain Systems of created sensless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: Though, as I think, I have proved, Lib. 4. c. roth, it is no less than a contradiction to suppose matter (which... | |
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For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought : though, as I think, I have... 
